Jose Cecilio del Valle

Jose Cecilio del Valle (22 November 1780-2 March 1834) was President of the United States of Central America from 1823 to 1825, preceding Manuel Jose Arce. He was a member of the Conservative Party of Central America.

Biography
Jose Cecilio del Valle was born in Choluteca, Honduras in 1780, and he came from a prominent family. He was educated in Guatemala, and he became Mayor of Guatemala City in 1821. That same year, Central America became independent from Spain, and, in 1822, when Central America became a part of the First Mexican Empire, Del Valle was elected as a Guatemalan representative to the Mexican Congress. In 1823, he was imprisoned for plotting against the Mexican government, but he was released after five months and named a member of the executive triumvirate of the United States of Central America. In 1825, after losing the presidential election to the liberal Manuel Jose Arce, Del Valle retired to become a writer, but he ran for President in 1834 and defeated Francisco Morazan. Unfortunately, Del Valle died before he could assume the presidency.